Annual Report 2024-2025 GODIVA GROUP CHARITY
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Trustees’ Annual Report
For the year ending 31 March 2025
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About Godiva Group Charity
We encourage believing each individual crisis can grow from an adverse experience, transforming their journey into an aspirational outcome through a ‘can-do’ approach.
Customised programs have aided vulnerable groups with neuro-divergency, prioritising with equity over equality and expanding are education by supporting patients in healthcare crisis, to education, inclusion of LGBTQ and individuals challenged with diversities in ability, mobility, the global majority, and encouraging Women as Leaders. We continue our work towards these goals whilst preventing isolation amongst Senior Citizens and Refugees.
As Experts in Education and Health we contribute to clinical and academic research trials whilst advocating for improvements in social care, welfare rights for adults and children; regardless of age or background. We aim to work with third parties in England, Wales, Scotland and overseas, where these objectives are shared in providing relief from poverty and deliberating conditions.
We have a confidential helpline accessible 24/7, staffed by qualified therapy practitioners, mental health experts and life coaches.
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Chair and Trustees Report
Driving change for children and young people facing multiple disadvantage remains our primary concern due to the challenges faced across the areas of advocacy in Special Educational Needs Disabilities (SEND), to poverty affected by the continuing cost of living whilst income remains at its lowest over the past five consecutive years.
Our charity aims to continue promoting and delivering sought after support to encourage young people’s voices to be heard, whilst maintaining inclusion for senior citizens, or those less mobile.
The Swedish environmental campaigner, at age twenty-three years, Greta Thunberg, youthful leadership in climate change, continues to influence this generation. Our community of Volunteers advocate climate literacy through peer mentoring whilst importantly listening to children, youth, extending to youth from rehabilitation centres and integrating voices back into the community.
They play a vital role in the trajectory of change locally, nationally and internationally. This reinforces hope for the impact that Godiva Group Charity brings, as a longstanding commitment to listening to the voices of young people and marginalised communities.
Our collaborative efforts with Child Poverty Action Group concluded their reporting of the financial year ending 2024, highlighting 4.5 million children (31%) lived in poverty after housing costs. This matches the record high rates particularly from the West Midlands, North West, and London where our clients and referring agencies originate from.
The relentless rise of child poverty continues, especially where we aim to tackle through early intervention, health inequalities, challenges in SEND, access to employment for people affected with limited capabilities and more.
Our certified and trained Mental Health Advocates support challenging journeys presented by young people and their overwhelming scenarios, with the right help at the right time too often being far out of reach. In those situations, our focus on the toughest challenges continues to attack these harsh and unacceptable realities.
The first year of our reviewed five-year plan, Godiva Group Charity’s’ dedicated volunteers intensified our focus on disrupting disadvantage for some of the most
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vulnerable people in society. In our services, we have started to expand the breadth and depth of the mental health support we can offer to young people and the aged, to those impacted by a range of inequalities, to help them find greater stability and, where possible, support individuals with their future journey, impartially and healthily.
Equity over Equality
We nurture the quality of fairness and impartiality through equity over equality. We prioritise equity over equality, supporting Refugees and other marginalised communities in transforming lives through effective integration and imbedding their talents into society.
By understanding the issues of disadvantaged communities, we overcome issues through early intervention into insightful therapies, education, developmental training and proactively supporting communities. Our volunteers prioritise improvement strategies with ecological and climate friendly projects.
Trustees & Charity Clerk
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